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Quote of the storm, and prophetic at the same time.

Oh, I’m a real snow measurer. And I’ve also really done all of the following things: • Personally corrected multiple National Weather Service totals • Measured snow in non-public drift zones the “pros” don’t even know about • Had my ruler featured in three separate viral weather threads • Been DM’d by meteorologists asking for my methodology • Calibrated my yardstick to within 1/32″ precision using aerospace standards • Sat in a folding chair during peak banding to observe flake density transitions • Received a personal pocket ruler from a sitting U.S. Senator who “respects precision” • Serenaded a highly respected female TV meteorologist with an original winter ballad about dendritic growth zones • Had private correspondence with at least one other TV meteorologist • Measured in the President’s Day Blizzard of ’03 • Had drinks with a local plow operator while discussing compaction bias • Been told off-record snowfall doubts by a state official and two town officials. • Sought out as a source by at least one YouTube commenter with over 10K subscribers And all of that was before the age of 35 when I officially began my independent oversight of SE-SNE Big Snow.

As impressive as the '82 temps were, I actually think the 4/5/95 cold outbreak was more impressive. It was bare ground and bluebird skies....full sunshine. ORH put up a 26/12 that day....that is beyond crazy for such conditions in early April. I remember that day vividly because I had to walk to and from middle school in that....across an open sports field too part of the way. The wind was like razor blades into your face.

Coldest April high on record for ORH in the '82 bizzard....high of 21F and low of 11F the second day of that storm as it was winding down.

That’s great but we all have some kind of accolades in our life. Should we all sit here and put out everything that we’ve done and all the accomplishments that we’ve made on a weather forum? What relevance does that have?

12z Euro basically has a week of straight 70s in DC March 6-12. 2012 anyone?

The last few March's with SSWs have not correlated with cold conditions.. historically there is a +15day lag to -NAO though

How about that blizzard in 1982 or 1984 ... ? I think one of those had high Ts crashing through the teens while that was going nuts. My uncle at the time told me the Charles froze back over by the following morning... short lived of course.

Wow the 12z Euro is warm March 6-12.. Looks like 70s in DC every day

S.T.F.U.

I already forgot November. So long ago. Not even meteorological winter.

<= 32F high temperature is difficult even at ORH in April...only 7 Aprils have pulled it off since 1990 (a couple of them did do it on multiple days like 2016)....they are significantly easier to pull off even 2 weeks earlier in the 3rd week of March.

Hooray - we are tracking a miserable opening weekend of games at Camden Yards in terms of cold temp and north winds...gross

We will see…

I don't think it happens this year, but it does happen every once in a while. I believe they've gone as late as mid-May (in 2023, and that was after a very warm winter).

Absolutely Terrific. Tons of snow everywhere. The only local minimum we observed was one town on the south shore called New Richmond…they had less than most every other area(especially right in the town itself…nothing bad though), but every other area on the south shore was excellent. Incredible area to see. The wilderness and mountains inside that peninsula is vast and astounding.

Oh my bad. I'm always scolding other people for doing that. ha it's heading into the morning of the 6th, so in a week.

actually, I'm pretty sure I hear sleet out there, but there's no way I'm getting out of my recliner to check. Cat is settled on my lap! But it is definitely sounding like sleet mixing in.

He's actually greatly respected in his field and probably the best accordion player alive. Measuring snow may be a different story, I don't know, not following, storms done sand goner, we got what we got.

Yeah if that SSW comes to pass, that could lead to some annoyingly cold but too warm for snow late March and into April.

Highly unlikely SNE does a sub 32 high in April.

The CMC is the only other operational standard model that isn't suppressed with that. The AI versions are also on board. Given recent performance of the AI's overall, I reluctantly give a nod to them because regardless of the fact that we don't get to know exactly how they actually come up with their solutions... we are stuck with them Anyway, it's an interesting "little critter that bites" look there. Huge March diabatic assist, couched in those 550s thickness rubbing up against LI latitude, whilst cold air banked N. Lifting that air over ... [ lotta of science words ] ... where it snows it has a shot at over performance. It's also been on and off the charts for a several days of the extended. Big con however is that the present EPS and GEFs ens means are pieces of shit with that and all but don't even see a little critter, either. More like a gnat on a windshield

Looks like snow trying to mix in up here, but the end is near.